UPDATED: Kyiv says 222 killed in capital since start of war, including 60 civilians
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LVIV, Ukraine March 18 (Reuters) – Kyiv city authorities on Friday said 222 people had been killed in the capital since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, including 60 civilians and four children.
A further 889 people have been wounded, including 241 civilians, the Kyiv city administration said in a statement. One person was killed and 4 wounded after parts of a Russian missile fell on a residential building in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday morning, emergencies services said.
The services said in a statement that 12 people were rescued and 98 were evacuated from the 5-storey building.
Several missiles have hit an aircraft repair plant in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday morning, destroying its building, city mayor Andriy Sadovy said.
The plant had been stopped and there were no casualties from the strike, he said.
Russian missiles struck an area near the airport of Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on Friday, its mayor Andriy Sadovy said, though he added that the airport itself had not been attacked.
Authorities are assessing the situation and will issue updates, he said.
Earlier, television station Ukraine 24 said at least three explosions had been heard in the city.
Explosions were reported in the western Ukrainian City of Lviv this morning, with those in the city claiming that the airport was hit by a Russian missile.
Smoke was purportedly seen rising from near Lviv International Airport, according to multiple videos posted across social media.
Heard explosions from our position in Lviv, #Ukraine a few minutes after air raid sirens went off early Friday morning. Video shows plumes of smoke visible to the west of the city. #cnnpic.twitter.com/3H9GaFafP3
